Cabinet



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i CABINET Filed Dec. l2, 1956 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 J. E. FOLTZ jm. m 1939,

CABINET Filed Dec. l2, 1936 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented Jan. l0, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT bOFFICE CABINET Illinois Application December l2, 1936, Serial No. 115,511

3 Claims.

cabinet which will have place for cooking and` cooking utensils, place for the storage of food, glassware, and the like, and in combination therewith a cold chamber.

Other objects will appear from time to timel in the specification.

My invention is illustrated more or less diagrammatically in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my cabinet in the closed position;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the cabinet with all but the cold chamber in the open posi- 2o tion;

Figure 3 isl a section on a large scale along the line 3-3 of Figure l; Figure 4 is a detail section along the line 4-4 of Figure 3; Figure 5 is a section along the line 5-5 of Figure 3;

Figure 6 is a perspective of the cooling plate forming part of the cold chamber;

Figure 7 is a perspective of the insulating cover for the dry ice compartment.

Like parts are indicated by. like characters throughout the speciicationand drawings.

My cabinet includes a bottom I, a back 2, and sides 3. It is divided into separate compartments by a horizontal partition 4, which partition forms the oor for the working compartment 5. This working compartment is open at the top and front and is preferably lined with an enamelled metal lining 6. This compartment is provided with a top cover 1 hinged to the top of the back wall 2 and a front li hinged to the top cover 1, being preferably supported in the open position by'a releasable strut 9. This compartment is adapted to contain, for instance, a toaster I0, a coiee percolator II and a heating element I2 therefor. In this compartment is a terminal block I3 associated with a conductor I4 which may lead to anysuitable source of. electric power. A switch is contained within the block I3 having push buttons I5,-I6, and the under side of the cover 1 is provided with a plate Il adapted to engage the button I5 and automatically turn the switch ofi when the cover 55 is closed, the4 cover being provided with a pocket (Cl. (i2-91.5)

I9 to permit the button I6 to come up when the button I5 goes down to the oi position.

Below the partition 4 is a slidable bread or chopping board 2li flanged as at 2| in continuation of the iront 8. Below this bread board is 5 a drawer 22 having a front 22A in parallelism with theange 2|. This drawer isl provided with a plurality of partitions 23 to divide it up into suitable compartments. Extending vertically from the bottom I up to the bottom of the l0 drawer 22 is a partition 24. On one side of this partition are `a plurality of open-work sliding trays 25 held on pins or other suitable brackets `26. On the opposed side of the partition is a built-in cold chamber comprising an insulated l5 box 21. The top of this box 28 furnishes the oor for a food compartment 29. The insulated cold chamber has a hinged door 30 adapted to be held in closed position by a latch 3l having a handle 32. 'I'he cold chamber is lined with a 20 metallic enamelled lining 33. In the upper por' tion of the cold chamber is an ice chamber 34 insulated as at 35 from the cold chamber. The bottom of this ice chamber is open and bounded by brackets 36, 31 upon which is slidably sup- 25 ported a wooden or insulating frame 38 containing a metallic plate 39. Resting on this metallic plate 39 is a U-shaped metallic frame 40 which is in direct metallic contact with the plate but out of contact with the lining for the cold cham- 30 ber. This frame is adapted to support a block of dry ice 4I which is preferably wrapped in paper or some suitable insulation to check its rate of evaporation. Within the frame 40, resting on the plate 39, is an ice cube box 42. The 35 ice compartment is closed by an insulating door 43 having a handle 64 so positioned that when the door 3l! is in the closed position the handle 44 is engaged and held snugly in seated insulating position so that the cooling effect in the cold 40 chamber comes exclusively from the metal plate in contact with the above mentioned supporting frame.

4 The cabinet is closed by doors 45, 46, the door 46 being apertured as at 41 to engage the handle 45 32 and thereby hold that handle against displacement so that as this portable cabinet is moved about with the doors closed, there is no possible chance that the cold cabinet door will open and will permit opening of the ice cornpartment as, if this happened, the ice would be wasted and the cold would be so intense that the articles in the ice compartment would be frozen too hard for use. u

I clami: 1. In combination, a cold chamber, an ice compartment therein, bounded at the top, one

Vside and the back by the walls of the cold ported on said brackets and forming the bottom floor for the ice'compartment, a pivoted closure for the cold chamber, a slidable closure for the open end of the ice compartment and a push member carried by such slidable closure and adapted to be engaged by the inner wall of the pivoted closure when it approaches its closed position to force the ice compartment closure inwardly against the bottom wall thereof.

2. In combination, a cold chamber, an ice compartment therein, bounded at the top, one side and the back by the walls of the cold chamber, an insulating wall depending from the top of the cold chamber to form the other side of the 2ice chamber, brackets supported on the insulating Wall and the cold chamber wall at the bottom of the ice chamber, a metal plate having an insulating peripheral. frame supported on said brackets and forming the bottom door for the ice compartment, a pivoted closure for the cold chamber, a slidable closure for the open end of the ice compartment and a push member carried by such slidable closure and adapted to be engaged by the inner wall of the pivoted closure when it approaches its closed position to force the ice compartment closure inwardly against the bottom wall thereof, a conducting frame removably supported on the metal plate, positioned by the insulating. frame within the icecompartment and adapted to support a supply of ice out of contact with any part of the walls of the ice compartment.

3. In combination, a cold chamber, an ice compartment therein, bounded at the top, one side and the back by the walls of the cold chamber,

aninsulating Wall depending from the top oi the cold chamber to form the other side of the ice chamber, brackets supported on the insulating wall and the cold chamber wall at the bottom of the ice chamber, a metal plate having an insulating peripheral frame supported on said brackets and forming the bottom oor for the ice compartment, a conducting frame removably supported on the metal plate, positioned by the insulating frame Within the ice compartment.

' JEFFERSON mVIN FOLTZ. 

